Swimming in Natural Gas: The Greenwashing of an Industry
From COMMON DREAMS, January 4, 2010 There has never been a better moment for natural gas. It is the “other” fossil fuel, touted as a clean alternative to coal and oil. It may be non-renewable,...
View ArticleJan Lundberg Attacks Sierra Club’s Support for “Clean Cars”
Our good friends The Sierra Club are at it again – this time with regards to motor transport. The Sierra Club believe you can have “clean cars” as demonstrated by this press release, emanating from...
View ArticleIt’s a Gusher: Outrage Erupts at D.C. Green Groups’ Ties to BP (from WCP)
This had to be republished, for it reinforces many of the things The Unsuitablog has been going on about for years now. As I said a short while ago, the reason I keep raising the hypocrisy of...
View ArticleHands Across The Sand: A New Low In Symbolic Protest
“I dreamed early on in the BP crime-event that The Gulf Gusher could NOT be stopped. I woke up shaking, sweating, my heart pounding. I knew this was information more than merely a dream…I think we...
View ArticleBoycotting BP Is Like Choosing Your Least Favourite Genocide
Which is your least favourite genocide? I don’t know about you, but if I lived in Rwanda then the genocide of 1994 that took the lives of a million people in some of the most brutal ways imaginable...
View ArticleCan a Shopping Voucher Skew Survey Results?
A couple of weeks ago I – or rather our house – received a letter from an organisation called the National Centre for Social Research, inviting us to take part in an annual survey called British...
View ArticleGreenwashing In The BBC [Guest Article]
Greenwashing has a habit of making it into every facet of our society, not just from the obvious sources such as the PR offices of polluting corporations, but also for example from major charities and...
View ArticleGreenpeace Inc. [Guest Article]
As some readers may have noted, an email recently came through Greenpeace’s UK newsletter inviting its supporters to take part in a poll: We’re carrying out a global poll to find out what Greenpeace...
View ArticleThe Unsuitablog’s Worst of 2010
Taking a cue from all the awards and “looking back on”s going on at the moment, it seems like just the right time to pick the very worst ethical hypocrites of 2010. Taking the year as a whole, there is...
View ArticleFriends of the Earth, iPods and The Competition That Killed a Charity
It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of...
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